Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity / / Jonathan Goldman.
The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literary Modernism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
- Chapter 1 . Oscar Wilde, Fashioning Fame
- Chapter 2. James Joyce and Modernist Exceptionalism
- Chapter 3. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Celebrity
- Chapter 4. Charlie Chaplin, Author of Modernist Celebrity
- Chapter 5. Rhys, the Obscure: The Literature of Celebrity at the Margins
- Epilogue. “Everybody who was anybody was there”: After Modernism, After Celebrity, John Dos Passos
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index